“In recent years we have seen a fast-growing demand across many our customers for creating cloud-hosted 3D CAD/BIM applications,” says Nikolay Snytnikov, LEDAS COO. “We have already developed a number of such applications from scratch and accumulated profound expertise in resource-demanding client-server applications. It makes sense for us to generalize the store of experience in a stack of 3D & Web technologies, and offer a licensable cloud platform that can be used for custom development by our customers’ in-house software engineers, or outsourced to the highly professional LEDAS team.”

LEDAS Cloud Platform is most beneficial for those companies, that want their own cloud-based 3D modelling software to be installed in a private or public cloud but prefer to avoid licensing and technological restrictions of the existing cloud CAD. A variety of applications can be built on this platform ranging from MCAD to AEC, including architectural visualization and BIM data management.

The evolution of modelers from Russia portends a new generation of design tools. Although the Russian developers would like to see their engines adopted worldwide, the primary goal seems to be to enable Russian companies to build world-class products for their growing domestic market. It’s going to take time for the new kernels to see wide acceptance, if ever. Ken Versprille points out companies have to be convinced technology providers will be around for the long haul before they commit. However, Ascon has been growing rapidly and gaining respect, thanks to the development of its Kompas 3D and additional tools. Ascon has ambitions to build new products for BIM and PLM as well. There is considerably more information available on Russian development for geometry kernels and design tools at the IsiCAD portal.

Fast forward four years and check latest slide deck with C3D customers here. You can see few interesting use cases there.

Going back to LEDAS news… How many companies in the world want to have their own “cloud-based” software? This is an interesting question. I guess users interested in cloud-based technologies are mostly looking how to optimize their IT spending. Who might be interested to host cloud-based CAD platform? In my view, it can be a large OEM, re-seller or another CAD vendor. Few screenshots shared in press release, demonstrating some 3D view capabilities in project-oriented environment, which might be a demo use case if a platform is targeting for developers.

What is my conclusion? How many companies are looking to use modern cloud-based technologies, but hesitate to use cloud software from mainstream established CAD vendors? This is a good question. I don’t know the answer. But if the number is at least few dozen, LEDAS might have a use case. However, LEDAS press release can be also just a marketing for a future technology project LEDAS is looking for. In any case watch it. Just my thoughts…

An interesting post was published by Luna-Tech research about the Business Process Management redefinition. Only few years ago, PLM was very focused about Collaborative Business Processes. These days I see PLM and Business Processes are not going very often together. My take is that PLM learned BPM implementation lessons. It…

A very interesting video presenting how you can track hand motion in the virtual 3D Model. The demo prepared by Robert Y. Wang and Jovan Popović. We demonstrate real-time tracking of the 3-D pose and configuration of the hand for gestural user-input and desktop virtual reality. The only components of our system…